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Kerr, Sari - 2015

We examine the relationship between house prices and entrepreneurship using micro data from the US Census Bureau …. Increases in house prices are often thought to drive entrepreneurship through unlocking the collateral channel for bank loans … effects (i.e., that people with more valuable homes are more likely to enter entrepreneurship for reasons other than access to …

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Friendship at Work : Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship?

Field, Erica - 2015

Does the lack of peers contribute to the observed gender gap in entrepreneurial success, and is the constraint stronger for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample...

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Demographics and Entrepreneurship

Liang, James - 2014

Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to … entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older … workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers do not possess the advantages of youth, but more significant is that …

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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry

Scheuer, Florian - 2013

This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...

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Homophily in Entrepreneurial Team Formation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

entrepreneurship and venture capital industry …

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The Productivity Advantage of Serial Entrepreneurs

Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2017

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than novice entrepreneurs, who open one business. Using panel data on entrepreneurs and their firms from Denmark for 2001-2013, the serial entrepreneur has 67% higher sales than the...

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Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship

Dillon, Eleanor W. - 2017

with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship … found to constitute a substantial portion of the monetary value of entrepreneurship. The model is then used to evaluate …

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Start-up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland

González, Felipe - 2016

Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...

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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons : Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs

Bahar, Dany; Cowgill, Bo; Guzman, Jorge - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

economic activity in the form of higher entrepreneurship. Using administrative census data linked to the complete formal …

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Transferable Skills? Founders as Venture Capitalists

Gompers, Paul A.; Mukharlyamov, Vladimir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper we explore whether or not the experience as a founder of a venture capital-backed startup influences the performance of founders who become venture capitalists (VCs). We find that nearly 7% of VCs were previously founders of a venture-backed startup. Having a successful exit and...

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